Israeli army kills Palestinian man in occupied West Bank New Israel-Palestine Conflict

The Israeli military also says it has carried out airstrikes in Gaza, the fourth since a May ceasefire with Hamas.

The Israeli army has shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian health agency said, according to local media reports that Israeli soldiers and settlers were shot dead in a town south of the city of Nablus.

Palestinian news agency WAFA he said A 20-year-old Palestinian was shot in the chest while standing in Qusran, on the roof of his village surrounded by illegal Jewish settlements and advanced locations.

Two other Palestinians were also shot and wounded by Israeli settlers as they were “defending an attack” in the village, the news agency reported.

Palestinian Health Ministry Mohammad Fareed Hassan, 20, identified the dead man.

An Israeli military spokesman said the soldiers had tried to disperse clashes between Israeli and Palestinian settlers.

The troops then saw a man throw an explosive device at them from a roof and “responded with fire against the suspect to eliminate the danger,” the spokesman said.

Palestinians are holding weekly protests Expansion of Israeli settlements In various parts of the West Bank.

In April, United Nations Human Rights Experts he said Violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians was escalating in a climate of high impunity.

Attacks in Gaza

Meanwhile, even on Saturday, the Israeli army he said he carried out airstrikes “at a weapons manufacturing site and a Hamas rocket launcher” at the Palestinian faction that rules the besieged Gaza Strip.

The army said the nets were intended to respond to flaming balloons fired from Gaza.

Local media reported that a Palestinian was seriously injured in the raids.

Hello #Gaza were Israeli warplanes bombed, tired of hearing? we too are tired of living. He directed the Israeli bombing of South Gaza and various areas. No injuries have been reported yet. #GazaUnderAttack

– Omar Ghraieb @ (@Omar_Gaza) July 3, 2021

The bombings are the fourth since a May ceasefire ended 11 days of fighting between Israel and Hamas.

Gaza authorities reported that at least 256 Palestinians, including 66 children, were killed in the Israeli bombing that month.

Thirteen people were killed in Israel, including two children, as a result of rockets fired from Gaza, police and the army said.

Egyptian and international mediators have tried to strengthen the informal ceasefire.